Plane makes emergency landing after laptop battery catches on fire

A JetBlue plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Michigan after smoke was detected coming from an overhead bin on a flight from New York to San Francisco. The culprit? A lithium battery in a passenger’s laptop.

A passenger on the plane, Kailey Honniball, 18, said that about two and a half hours into the flight, she heard a message over the PA system: "Sounds like fire in 25!"

She looked back and saw smoke.

"I was really scared," Honniball told CNN. "When you see a fire on the plane and you're in the air, there's nothing you can do."

Spurred by fears of terrorism, the Department of Homeland Security in March banned large electronics on US-bound flights from eight Middle Eastern and North African countries ‒ a total of 10 different airports.

They have been considering broadening the restrictions on all international flights in and out of the United States.